{"id":37421,"date":"2026-03-24T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37421\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:28:09","slug":"25-skiers-caught-in-italian-avalanche-2-dead-5-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37421\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Skiers Caught in Italian Avalanche; 2 Dead, 5 Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-320460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Photo-CNSAS-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"Italian rescue workers comb the snow for buried skiers in the Italian Alps. Photo CNSAS\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-320460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Italian rescue workers comb the snow for buried skiers in the Italian Alps. Photo: CNSAS<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A large avalanche swept through the Italian alps this weekend.\u00a0 As The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/italy-avalanche-skiers-killed-f793b17f97e5a39a2b1fe427cefeaf4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a>, dozens of skiers were caught up in the slide, with multiple deaths and injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at 11:40 a.m. Saturday morning on Hohe Ferse mountain (also known as Monte Tallone Grande), located in northern Italy, near the Austrian border. The avalanche occurred at an altitude of 7,874 feet.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 25 skiers were caught in the slide. Two skiers were killed, three were seriously injured and two suffered minor injuries. Italy\u2019s Alpine rescue service CNSAS has not specified what happened to the other 18 people \u2013 whether they were buried, rescued, or if they also received any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>To rescue the skiers, CNSAS mobilized six helicopters and 80 rescue staff, assisted by the Alpine Association, police, firefighters, and rescue dogs.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/mountain\/avalanche-buries-three-french-skiers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">particularly treacherous ski season for European skiers<\/a>. The European Avalanche Warning System (EAWS) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avalanches.org\/fatalities\/fatalities-2025-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> 127 fatalities for the 2025-2026 season \u2013 above the annual average of 100.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/italy-avalanche-skiers-killed-f793b17f97e5a39a2b1fe427cefeaf4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the Associated Press,<\/a> experts posit that the high death toll has been caused by unusually unstable snowpack and a high number of skiers flocking to backcountry runs following heavy snowstorms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian rescue workers comb the snow for buried skiers in the Italian Alps. Photo: CNSAS A large avalanche&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,902,309],"class_list":{"0":"post-37421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-italy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116281324537699989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}